Acca

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οἰκτίστῳ θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι → it was fated that you would be taken by the most miserable death, it has been decreed that thou shouldst be cut off by a most piteous death

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Acca: ae, f. cf. Sct. accā = mater, and the Gr. Ἀκκώ = mater Cereris.
I Lā-rentĭa, the wife of the shepherd Faustulus, who nursed and brought up the twins Romulus and Remus; mother of the twelve Arvales Fratres, Varr. L. L. 6, 23; Gell. 6, 7. In her honor the Romans celebrated in December a feast called Lārentālĭa, or Accālĭa (v. Larentia).—
II A companion of Camilla, Verg. A. 11, 820.